I’m thinking of picking up an old HP Microserver (gen8) and was wondering if it is a bad idea from a security standpoint.

I mean it’s only 10 years old - is there any exploit or something like that?

What about a N36L Microserver?

I’d probably run Debian headless on it.

I’d only use it for Syncthing and as a backup NAS.

UPDATE

Everybody made really good arguments against the microserver and I won’t be getting one. Thank you for your inputs

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

    7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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